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Patent trolls can sue the customers of the software company (as Microsoft did to Google by suing Samsung), or the trolls can seek to obtain the money which is p
by nickff 13y ago
Patent trolls can sue the customers of the software company (as Microsoft did to Google by suing Samsung), or the trolls can seek to obtain the money which is paid to the respondent (software company) from the USA. It is more difficult to sue non-US companies for some issues other than patents.
- kintamanimatt 13y agoFor a lot of purposes though, that's unlikely to happen for small companies. I struggle to imagine Lodsys and friends suing someone who downloaded an app from Google Play or paid for a web app. Plus, if the money has already been remitted (and that tends to happen especially fast in the world of low ATVs), they haven't got a hope. As one patent troll told me on reddit, there's just too much gold to mine and low hanging fruit in the US to bother with anyone else.